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I have a confession.\u00a0 I hate carrots.\u00a0 They are so boring, especially if they are not covered in ranch or anything that makes them 100% less healthy.\u00a0 However, if you were to ask my co-workers they would tell you I love carrots because I am constantly eating them.\u00a0 All day LONG. I go through about a bag a day, sometimes more.\u00a0 It is because I am a notorious nosher.\u00a0 If I am sitting at my desk, I need to be constantly munching.\u00a0 So I keep carrots at my desk at all times,\u00a0 they get the job done.\u00a0 Now, in a perfect world where you can eat whatever you want and not be 400 pounds- my day time snack of choice would be anything chocolate covered.<\/p>\n

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When asking one of my clients this week how her healthy eating was going she replied, “Terrible, it’s not hard to lose weight, it is hard to make good choices.”<\/em>\u00a0 She hit the nail right on the head.\u00a0 There is no miracle drug, no magic pill.\u00a0 Eating well and exercising IS the pill.\u00a0 Making the right choices IS the pill.\u00a0 Personally, I really enjoy cooking and eating healthy because it makes me feel good and I believe in taking care of myself.\u00a0 But that does not mean I don’t know how to splurge.\u00a0 In fact, I would choose to live off of Portillos chocolate cake and pizza\u00a0 if it did not turn me into Jabba the Hutt.\u00a0 You should google images of Jabba the Hutt by the way, made me laugh out loud.<\/p>\n

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Being healthy, fit and looking how you want to look, is also not this amazing puzzle piece you one day find and are like “OMG! It’s so easy! I finally figured it out!”\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 It is a CONSTANT choice.\u00a0 A choice to take the stairs.\u00a0 A choice to get up early and run even when you are dying to sleep in.\u00a0 A choice to go workout after work when really all you want is a beer.\u00a0 A choice to snack on carrots instead of Sour Patch Kids.\u00a0 It is not easy.\u00a0 But it is SO worth that feeling of putting on a pair of your jeans and NOT having to drop it like it’s hot …JUST to get them past your hips (Men, if only you knew how awful jeans could be).\u00a0 It is SO worth looking in the mirror and genuinely being pleased.\u00a0 It is worth the energy levels that sky rocket and make you feel like you can conquer the world because your body is full of good nutrients.<\/p>\n

Did you make bad choices today?\u00a0 It’s okay, we all do.\u00a0 As long as the majority of your choices are good ones, you are well on your way \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I have a confession.\u00a0 I hate carrots.\u00a0 They are so boring, especially if they are not covered in ranch or anything that makes them 100% less healthy.\u00a0 However, if you were to ask my co-workers they would tell you I love carrots because I am constantly eating them.\u00a0 All day LONG. I go through about a bag a day, sometimes more.\u00a0 It is because I am a notorious nosher.\u00a0 If I am sitting at my desk, I need to be constantly munching.\u00a0 So I keep carrots at my desk at all times,\u00a0 they get the job done.\u00a0 Now, in a perfect world where you can eat whatever you want and not be 400 pounds- my day time snack of choice would be anything chocolate covered. When asking one of my clients this week how her healthy eating was going she replied, “Terrible, it’s not hard to lose weight, it is hard to make good choices.”\u00a0 She hit the nail right on the head.\u00a0 There is no miracle drug, no magic pill.\u00a0 Eating well and exercising IS the pill.\u00a0 Making the right choices IS the pill.\u00a0 Personally, I really enjoy cooking and eating healthy because it makes me feel good and I believe in taking care of myself.\u00a0 But that does not mean I don’t know how to splurge.\u00a0 In fact, I would choose to live off of Portillos chocolate cake and pizza\u00a0 if it did not turn me into Jabba the Hutt.\u00a0 You should google images of Jabba the Hutt by the way, made me laugh out loud. Being healthy, fit and looking how you want to look, is also not this amazing puzzle piece you one day find and are like “OMG! It’s so easy! I finally figured it out!”\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 It is a CONSTANT choice.\u00a0 A choice to take the stairs.\u00a0 A choice to get up early and run even when you are dying to sleep in.\u00a0 A choice to go workout after work when really all you want is a beer.\u00a0 A choice to snack on carrots instead of Sour Patch Kids.\u00a0 It is not easy.\u00a0 But it is SO worth that feeling of putting on a pair of your jeans and NOT having to drop it like it’s hot …JUST to get them past your hips (Men, if only you knew how awful jeans could be).\u00a0 It is SO worth looking in the mirror and genuinely being pleased.\u00a0 It is worth the energy levels that sky rocket and make you feel like you can conquer the world because your body is full of good nutrients. Did you make bad choices today?\u00a0 It’s okay, we all do.\u00a0 As long as the majority of your choices are good ones, you are well on your way \ud83d\ude42    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}